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Good experience of BD students from JENESYS

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Good experience of BD students from JENESYS

Good experience of BD students from JENESYS

We all know that Japan's a hi-tech giant, great at making cool stuff like robots, electric cars, drones etc. But there is another side to Japanese tech that doesn't get much spotlight. These are the techs that have established Japan as agriculturally strong nation despite its lack of cultivable and fertile land as well as adverse climate.
Thanks to a youth exchange program of Japan, JENESYS (Japan East Asia Network for Exchange of Students and Youths) I was able to behold some of the techs the Japanese have developed to contribute to their agricultural sector. During our visit to Chiba University, we attended a lecture by Shinohara Sensei who was the Chairman of the greenhouse association of Japan and an Emeritus Professor at the university. According to the professor, the latest Japanese greenhouse (they call it a plant-factory) yields almost 7 times more crops than its biggest competitor the Dutch.
Now if you want to grow a tomato you need to choose a place with enough sunlight. But that's not the Japanese way. If you are a Japanese, then you'd probably go to an LED shop. Japan uses programmed LEDs that give light of the optimum wave-length. The lettuce plant factory we saw, had purple LEDs shining over trays of lettuce plants. Secondly, you are going to need some soil. Again, that's not the Japanese way. In plant-factories soil is substituted by nutrient-injected water. Next up, you're going to have to water it every day and take care of it. But not if you have automated systems that monitor and control all variables like humidity, CO2 concentration, pests and water stress (I didn't know what it meant either). Water sprinklers make mists of water to sustain optimum humidity and intelligent fans that create air flow when CO2 concentration is below 400 ppm. Lastly, water stress is kind of like the stress a plant has to go through while extracting water. A lot depends on this one. The Japanese scientists have figured out relations between the tastes, looks of crops and water stress. Thus, they crunch numbers based on their researches and get the results.
So it could be said that when it comes to agriculture, Japan leaves nothing to chance. They grow food like they're solving a math problem. These guys have one third of the cultivable land we have. Their land is not nearly as fertile as ours. Their winters are freezing. Still, they're agricultural sector is stronger than ours.
Student of Notre Dame College, Participant JENESYS 2018









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